核心畫面
For the adjective, you can picture leading as whatever is out in front of the rest — the edge of a wing that meets the air before any other part does. From that physical picture the word moves to standing: a leading expert is the one out in front of the field. One more group sits apart: the noun leading is the metal lead used in a roof or a window, a different word that only happens to be spelled the same.
形容詞的 leading 可以想成：一群東西一起往前移動時，走在最前面的那一個——機翼上先切開空氣的那道邊。這個「在…更多收起
形容詞的 leading 可以想成：一群東西一起往前移動時，走在最前面的那一個——機翼上先切開空氣的那道邊。這個「在最前面」的畫面往上一抬，就從位置變成地位：a leading expert 不是站在前排，而是在整個領域裡跑在別人前面。另外還有一個 leading 完全是另一回事：作為名詞，指建築用的金屬鉛，跟「帶領」的 lead 只是拼法相同。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
leadingadj詞源 1/ˈliːdɪŋ/
- 1
Providing guidance or direction.
- Avoid leading questions if you really want the truth.
- 2
Ranking first.
- He is a leading supplier of plumbing supplies in the county.
- 3
Occurring in advance; preceding.
- The stock market can be a leading economic indicator.
- Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive.
leadingnoun詞源 2/ˈliːdɪŋ/
- 1
An act by which one is led or guided.
- It has been said that we ought not to force our way, but to wait for the openings, and leadings of Providence; but it might with equal propriety be answered in this case, neither ought we to neglect embracing those openings in providence which daily present themselves to us.
- I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop, / I do not say leadings you thought great are not great, / But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
- 2
archaicCommand of an army or military unit.
- Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?
leadingnoun詞源 3/ˈlɛdɪŋ/
- 1
mediapublishingtypographyVertical space added between lines; line spacing.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。